| Some roads eventually need to be "widened". Sometimes you need a new road altogether.
The information superhighway... x2. It all costs money, just not in the same way that "utilities" figure costs. Most of the "more bandwidth" projects involve newer technologies being deployed. Most road projects are just more of the same old "tech" (asphalt, concrete, whatever). It's the orders of magnitude that differentiate the costs.
...and then there's wireless... |
| reply to openbox9
Yes, but as we were discussing, there is no UNIT cost for a byte. Just as there is no unit cost if 1 car uses the new highway, or 10,000 cars use the new highway. If you build it big enough, there is no traffic problem. Everything you described is capital costs. Building new roads to handle new traffic isn't a unit cost, it's a capital cost. Sure, we will need to continually upgrade the infrastructure, but hell, we spent 25 Billion dollars to rebuild the road through boston, and THAT is a non-toll road. So, the internet, like the roads, is a utility, which CAN BE used by all, but isn't necessarily used by all.
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